The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.