This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.