Desire is possibility seeking expression.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.