Of what significance are the things you can forget.

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.