... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Kindness is always fashionable.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.