Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.