A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

What is human is immortal!