We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.