There can be no acting or doing of any kind, till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.

There are but two ways of paying debt—increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.