What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Do well by doing good.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.