Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.