“Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.”

“Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.”

“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”

“Every man contemplates an angel in his future self”

“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”

“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”