There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

Law never made men a whit more just.