"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"I love my friends, but I do not want to absorb them."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"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…"

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."