It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.