Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.