The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.