There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.