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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.
There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.
Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.
Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.
It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.
If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?