Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.