The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.