Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.