People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

There is no history; only biography.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.