To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.