A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation..

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges..

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome….

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, th….

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly….

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser..

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself..

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind..

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence..

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, o….

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence..

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it..

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelentin….

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect..

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature….

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat..

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not..

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the st….

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge..

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power..

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things..