The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.