The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant