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

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.