If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.