Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.