In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.