God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

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

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.