Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.