Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.
Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.
To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.
Please your eye and plague your heart.
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
