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.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

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

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.