 Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. |
| How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them. |
| If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. |
| What is once well done is done forever. |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
| How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. |
| Goodness is the only investment that never fails. |
| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. |
| As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. |
| The perception of beauty is a moral test. |
| Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. |
| It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. |
| We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. |
| Being is the great explainer. |
| The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. |
| It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. |
| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. |
| I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. |
| There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. |
| Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. |
