For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.