The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.