If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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?