Hope is the best part of our riches.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.