I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.