The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

Our best thoughts come from others.