That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.