There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

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

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

Love is more just than justice.