While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.