If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

There is no life but this.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius.

One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.

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

What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?

I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.