Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.