I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.