Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.