People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

I was not born to be forced.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.