We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.