Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.