It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.