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.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

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.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.