"The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."

"Hope is necessary in every condition."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."

"Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far."

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in awhile, you could miss it."

"So little done--so much to do."

"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."