The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.