Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Things don't change. We change.