A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.