A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.