All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.