No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

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

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.