That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

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

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.