The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.