Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.