Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.