The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.