Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.