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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.