There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

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

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.