Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. - Theodore Parker

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.