Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.