"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"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."

"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 whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."