Disappointment is often the salt of life.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.