What worries you, masters you.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

All wealth is the product of labor.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.