A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

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