The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.