It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.