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

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

A man is a god in ruins.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.