Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.