We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

People die of fright and live of confidence.