Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

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

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.