This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.