“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”

“If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.”

“There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!”

“Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.”

“Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.”

“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”

“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”

“We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.”

“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”

“It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.”

“The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.”

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I havebeen politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.”

“My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”