But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.