Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.