I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.