A Noble Deed Is A Step Towards

I Account The Office Of Benefactor, Or Almoner, To Which God Appoints All Those Whom He Has Favored With Wealth, One Of The Most Honorable And Delightful In The World. He Never Institutes A Channel For The Passage Of His Bounties That Those Bounties Do Not Enrich And Beautify.

If There Be One Attribute Of The Deity Which Astonishes Me More Than Another, It Is The Attribute Of Patience. The Great Soul That Sits On The Throne Of The Universe Is Not, Never Was, And Never Will Be, In A Hurry. In The Realm Of Nature, Every Thing Has Been Wrought Out In The August Consciousness Of Infinite Leisure; And I Bless God For That Geology Which Gives Me A Key To The Patience In Which The Creative Process Was Effected.

Of All The Advantages Which Come To Any Young Man ... Poverty Is The Greatest.

Work And Wait, Work And Wait Is What God Says To Us In Creation.

The Faculty Of Self-help Is That Which Distinguished Man From Animals; That It Is The Godlike Element, Or Holds Within Itself The Godlike Element, Of His Constitution.