None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.