A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.