“The only hard thing is to begin.”

“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”

“There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

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

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

“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.”