I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Great hopes make everything great possible.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.