Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall neve...
In short, all good things are wild and free.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Alles, was unserer körperlichen Ernährung und Pflege dient, lassen wir uns mehr kosten als unsere geistige Ernährung.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his h...
If a man walk 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 whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth b...