Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.