“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”
“Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.”
“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”
“Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.”
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
“It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.”
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
“The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
“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.”
“He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
“People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.”
“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.”