"Read not the Times. Read the Eternities."

"The only excuse for a man's doing anything that he doesn't like is that he has to do it."

"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"