A little thought is sexton to all the world.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
It is a great art to saunter.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?