I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization; but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that…

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard hi…

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.