One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction

If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon