The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.