Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.