philosophy Quotes

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Nature hates calculators.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

There is always safety in valor.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.