The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.