To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.