We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Men have become the tools of their tools.