“No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.”

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Poets tell many lies.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

I grow old learning something new every day.

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Each day grow older, and learn something new.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that’s difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God’s omnipotency.

The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.