A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

The improved means to the unimproved end.

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

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