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Exercise is labor without weariness.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.