"The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating…"

"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is ov…"

"Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about for ever in expectation of a crum…"

"... the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel o…"

"Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks th…"

"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to pres…"

"Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing."

"Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities. We gain only as we give."

"... there is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously tha…"

"Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance, and the vain…"