Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.