As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i. e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.