The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.

I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so, in all cases with women.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.