All vigor is contagious.

Frankness invites frankness.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.