Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.