To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.