Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. All this worldly wisdom was once the amiable heresy of some wise man. Civil Disobedience Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Civil Disobedience Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society. It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.