Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
