Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.