An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.