What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.