Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.