I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.