The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.