Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.