Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

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.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.