A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.