When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.