In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

The only wealth is life.

If I am not I, who will be?

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.