Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.