Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.