God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Action [is] the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

All wealth is the product of labor.