I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.