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

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.