Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.