Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.