Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.