Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

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

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.