Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

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.

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.