A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.