Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.