We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I think no virtue goes with size.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Do what you're afraid to do.