There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend may it come to pass once that when you are my friend I may be yours.

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.