But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.