The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.