Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.