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.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.

The actual well seen is ideal.