All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.