“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.