Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.