It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.