Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.