Knowledge is the antidote to fear

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

One must be an inventor to read well.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.