Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

I am in love with the green earth.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!