Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Labor is God's education.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.