It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.