The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

No man can have society upon his own terms.