The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.