How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.