Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.