Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.