Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.