To Look Forward And Not Back, To

An Intelligent Class Can Scarce Ever Be, As A Class, Vicious, And Never, As A Class, Indolent. The Excited Mental Activity Operates As A Counterpoise To The Stimulus Of Sense And Appetite.

The Church Itself Has Got To Go Outside Of Its Own Borders And Carry The Gospel To Ev'ry Creature, Or It Is No Church Of Christ; And Any Mutual Improvement Club Which Thinks That By Reading Its Shakspearo, Or By Acting Its Pretty Tableaux, Or By Having. This Or That Little Reading From Spenser And From Chaucer, It Is Going To Lift Itself Up Into Any Higher Order Of Culture Or Life, Is Wholly Mistaken, Unless As An Essential Part Of Its Duty, It Goes Out Into The World, Finds Those That Are Falling Down, And Lifts Them Up To The Majesty Of Freemen, Who Are Sons Of God.

[s]leep, And Enough Of It, Is The Prime Necessity. Enough Exercise, And Good Food And Enough, Are Other Necessities. But Sleep—good Sleep, And Enough Of It—this Is A Necessity Without Which You Cannot Have The Exercise Of Use, Nor The Food.

Wise Anger Is Like Fire From A Flint: There Is Great Ado To Get It Out; And When It Does Come, It Is Out Again Immediately.

Make It Your Habit Not To Be Critical About Small Things.