I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.