“For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.”
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
“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”