The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

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

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.