Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.