“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”
“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine”
“Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”
“There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”
“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.”
“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”
“Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.”
“Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.”
“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”
“Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”
“Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”
“The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.”
“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.”
“So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.”
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.”
“Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”