Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

True obedience is true freedom.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.