O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.