The end of man is action.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.