I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Take heed lest you stumble.

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.