This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see m...
Ich ging in die Wälder, weil ich bewusst leben wollte.
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest ha...
It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painte...
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the w...
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in...
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that...
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also...
A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It i...
I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreami...