Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

I am very little of a traveler.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?