When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.