Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

The sun is but a morning star.