Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.