Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.