A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.