I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will