Owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The voices of school children sound like spring.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom of fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

One man lies in his words and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners and enjoys a good one.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.