We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

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

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.