I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

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.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.