Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.