If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.