Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.