None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.