The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is...
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.
Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and...
Being is the great explainer.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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