We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.