Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

A man should carry nature in his head.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.