We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.