The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.