Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

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

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.