Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

We work and that is godlike.

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.