A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.