there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception