Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.