“One little chore to do, one little commission to fulfil, one message to carry, would spoil heaven itself.”

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

“One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.”

“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.”

“...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”