Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.