It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.