97 quotes found
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
“We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the sacredness of his calling, or is reminded...”
“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your...”
“There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverishe...”
“It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.”
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they cam...”
“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages it must be shown that it has produced better dw...”
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
“It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.”
“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.”
“Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.”
“Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners wh...”
“If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he...”
“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.”
