To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves