Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.

The first wealth is health.

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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