It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

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