This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.