There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Love your life, poor as it is.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?