The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.