If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain