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

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

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Discover what you are.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.