Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

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.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.