Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

There is no wealth but life.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

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.

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.