Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

A hunter who is going to shoot an antelope does not waste his bullets on the dog.

If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.

Sometimes you don't want better but just what is YOURS..

The right questions help you discover the right answers. Be careful what questions you are asking yourself…

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.