Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.