You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

God's glory is His goodness.