This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?