Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Joys divided are increased.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.