I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.