Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.