Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.