The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.