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

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

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.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.