Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

The best part of health is fine disposition

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.