A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.