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

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.