Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
Love does not analyze its object.
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?