If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?