A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.