As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.