A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

The life of truth is cold.