The world is God's workshop for making men in.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.