Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.