Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

God hid the whole world in thy heart.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.