Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.