"I have been writing a sermon on the use of money. Oh, what a flat, unprofitable subject it is!"

"It is not the being in a place, but the being in a state, that makes us happy."

"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion to travel with, it should be one that would talk little."

"I still find, and find it to my comfort, that I am not in the number of the rich. If I am not, I am not in the number of them that are in danger of falling into temptation and a snare, and into many f…"

"I do not think that I have ever spent an hour in my life, from the age of twenty-one to this day, without employing it in some useful way."