Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.