There is no beginning too small.

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.