It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.