You never gain something but that you lose something.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.