Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.