Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.