The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

What we call results are beginnings.

Activity is contagious.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

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