No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!