Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law