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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.