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

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.