Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.