Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.