All true religion must stand on true morality.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.