Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.