What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.