That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.