Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

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

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.