The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.