💬 Quotes

"It seems to me that the 'good' are generally the 'easy-going', and the 'bad' are the 'uncompromising'."

"Every age and generation must be free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it."

"Government is not trade, but a trust, which ought to be executed on the most liberal principles of duty, and public advantage."

"Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights secured."

"An army of principles will penetrate where an army of cannons cannot."

"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

"It is an absurdity to say that the generations which are to come are at the mercy of the generations which have been."

"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

"Marriage had enchanted her; but the spell was broken, the instant she had legal claims to him."

"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all attachments, because it is founded on principle and cemented by time."

"Contempt is not incompatible with a keen sense of injury."

"Consider whether you are not, more than men, the creatures of prejudice."

"The civilization of an age is measured by the degree of respect paid to the female sex."

"Your wealth is too near to you. You are looking right over it; and you are looking over it because you have been deceived in thinking you must go somewhere else to find it."

"He who would be great among you must be the servant of all. He who would achieve success in this world must deliver that which helps his fellow men."

"The men who get rich aren't the ones who are hunting for wealth, but the ones who are seeking to serve humanity."

"To find the universal in the particular is the greatest art, and to see the marvelous in the common is the secret of success."

"Every man's natural ambition has been to get into some other sphere of work than that in which God has placed him."

"Greatness consists not in the holding of some future high office, but in the doing of ordinary things extraordinarily well right where you are."

"He who knows that power is from within will boldly draw on his own interior resources and will not be anxious as to outcomes."