We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Let go of the past and go for the future.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.