A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

The best part of health is fine disposition

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument