Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.