Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.