Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.