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

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

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