In sovereignty there are no gradations.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

No one ever became great by imitation.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.