I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Some suggestions for you :

Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.

The callous palms of the labourer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

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

If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairty tale from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.

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.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.