When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.