The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.