There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.