No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.