Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.