Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

Love is the piety of the affections.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

All men desire to be immortal.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.