"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering for a great while at the eaves of an old church."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the b…"

"Read not the Times. Read the Eternities."

"We are told that an Indian cannot be made to feel a slight. I confess I have never found an Indian who could not."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."