The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

The first wealth is health.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.