If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.