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"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."

"The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life."

"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."

"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

"The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today."

"Begin to invest your time into research and studies about how you could impact your world positively because only through the proper conversion of time could you become great."
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."

"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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