Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

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

The world laughs in flowers.

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