Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

He who writes badly thinks badly

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.