Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.