I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.

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.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.