Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.