Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.