To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

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.