My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.