Every man's task is his life-preserver.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature ... and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.