It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

a good reader makes a good book

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.