Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.