Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?