Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

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.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.