Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

What is once well done is done forever.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.