Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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

To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather

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.