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

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

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