Life is our dictionary.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.