I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.