Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.