Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.