“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has”

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.”

“Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”

“Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.”