There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.