The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

There's no gain, without pain.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.