Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.