“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”

The future is purchased by the present.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Progress and civilization are the results of the efforts of genius, not the gossip of the majority.

Humanity is a civilisation in the middle of the ocean, and we are right now setting fire to our boat”

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.