What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

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.

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

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.