It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice