In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

A man's perfection is his work.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.