I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.