Be happy without picking flaws.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.