“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,”

“Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”

“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”

“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.”

“Be it life or death, we crave only reality.”

“The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.”

“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.”

“He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established.”

“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.”

“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”

“Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.”

“The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.”

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

“The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.”

“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.”

“Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government?”

“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven”

“While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”

“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.”

“Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”

“Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.”

“A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency”

“The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”

“Sobre todo, no podemos permitirnos el lujo de no vivir en el presente.”

“the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.”

“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.”

“As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.”

“It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.”

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.”

“A man's riches are based on what he can do without.”

“Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it”

“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”

“There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.”

“There are thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk.”

“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”

“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”

“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.”