Renew thyself completely each day.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.