To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.