As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.