For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.