Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.