All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.