In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.