Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.