The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
