Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.