Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.