"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

"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."

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

"Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep."

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

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"One does not learn how to die by killing others."

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania."

"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."