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.'

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.