Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

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 happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.