If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

The habit of saving is itself an education it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.