The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek..

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign..

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . ….

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living..

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind..

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary..

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was..

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that wer….

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate..

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe..

A good conscience is eight parts of courage..

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. ….

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson..

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward..

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profou….

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide..

Children are certainly too good to be true..

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand..

No man is useless while he has a friend..

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious..

Every man has a sane spot somewhere..