There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.