Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.