For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

I am a majority of one.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.