Hitch your wagon to a star.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
How many are the things I can do without!
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
A home without a cat-and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat-may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.
Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
