One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.