What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.