"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."