Law never made men a whit more just.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.