Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.