As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.