John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.