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

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

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

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.