Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.