Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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?

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.