Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors.

He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.