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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.