Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.
We cannot put a noose around another man’s neck without first hanging ourselves.
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
He who owns little is little owned.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil’s attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed.
Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.