Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.