The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.