“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”

“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”

“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”

“It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.”

“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.”