I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.