A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.