A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.