Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.