You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.