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

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.