It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.