I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.