A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.