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

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.