It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
The truth brings no man a fortune.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.