If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

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

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Renew thyself completely each day.

America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.