Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.