My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

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

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.