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

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.