“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

“What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.”

“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”