Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

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

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.