Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.