He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.