The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.