Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.