Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.