Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.