I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.