Love is the river of life in this world.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.