“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

True obedience is true freedom.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don’t, who will? Not other poor people, that’s for sure.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.