You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.