We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.