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 man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

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