A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.