Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.