Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.