Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
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.