Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.