Self-trust is the first secret of success.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.