Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

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

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

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

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.