If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

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

No violent extreme endures.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.