All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

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

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

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.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.