"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character …"

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha…"

"It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump."

"He who would make his fellow-creatures happy must cease to be happy himself."