And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.