Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.