The first step to greatness is to be honest.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.