A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

The things that hurt us teach us.

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