It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.