Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.