If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.