The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.