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

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

The rule is to carry as little as possible.