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To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.