Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.