Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?