Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.