It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Men even when alone lighten their labors by song however rude it may be.