Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.