There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.