I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

No society can ever be so large as one man.