"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it"
"An unclean person is universally a slothful one"
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul"
"Men have become the tools of their tools"
"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve"
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail"
"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive"
"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today"
"It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all"
"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man"
"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know"
"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious"
"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices"
"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise"
"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood"
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without"
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see"
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them"
"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things"
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment"
"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law"
"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument"
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run"
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all"
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth"
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer"
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free"
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings"
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake"
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them"
"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify"
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end"
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them"
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake"
"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him"
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain"
"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution"
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand"
"Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?"
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind"
