God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?