I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.