It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Ability without honor has no value.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.