No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?