There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.