It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and wit...
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth b...
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.
In Literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his disea...
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer th...
Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in puttin...
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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