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

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.