Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.