When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my...

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.