Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
This is the true nature of home – it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some – not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said “it is because you were too much indulged.”
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.