“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves”

“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly”

“It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished”

“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself”

“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach”

“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it”