It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I love the broad margin to my life.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.