Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.