Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.