Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.