A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.