Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but "You are as good as I am."