Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.