Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.