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Fatigue yourself, but once, to utter exhaustion, and to the end of life you shall not recover the former vigour of your frame.

Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life for ever.

granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.

Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

There is no act which more imperatively requires to be performed under a strong sense of individual responsibility than the nomination to employments.

For the first time in our history the person elected to the Vice-Presidency of the United States, by the happening of a contingency provided for in the Constitution, has had devolved upon him the Presidential office.

Deep-rooted Customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the Duty of every one to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.

Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?

Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

While I silently ponder on that Change wrought in me, I find no Language equal to it, nor any Means to convey to another a clear Idea of it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles

Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

I will try, Mother, I truly will. But you must help me, remind me, and keep me from flying out.

I’ve been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her.

Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.