Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.