It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

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

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.

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.