"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid."

"Within the problem lies the solution"

"Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect."

"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir."

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."

"Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery."

"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."