“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”

“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.”

“A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.”

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like

“It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return”

“The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _à la mode_.”

“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.” ”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection.”

“The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”

“the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.”

“Sobre todo, no podemos permitirnos el lujo de no vivir en el presente.”

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”

“The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”

“A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency”

“Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.”

“Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”