Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.