I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way...But lo! men have become the tools of t...
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is...
In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment...
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mould!--painted of a thousand hues,...
It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.
Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be...
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth.
One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw mat...
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
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