One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?