We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.