The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

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

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.