Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. |
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written |
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution /such call I good books. |
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. |
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure |
City life is millions of people being lonesome together. |
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? |
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? |
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. |
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. |
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. |
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. |
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. |
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. |