It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. - Henry David Thoreau

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the Church did in its worst period.

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere, — for I have had a little experience in that business, — that there is a desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country, — and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as the audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.