It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.