Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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

Every great man is unique.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.