Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.