No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

We bless and curse ourselves.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.