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

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

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.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.