The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.