God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Joys divided are increased.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.