That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.