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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.

All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

The only wealth is life.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.