No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.