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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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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...more

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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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.

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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him...more

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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, ...more

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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere sha...more

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress...more