Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.