A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.