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

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.