“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.”

“No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.”