The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...