I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.