Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.