LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.