What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

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

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.