Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

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

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

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.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.