Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

Do the thing and you will have the power.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.