What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.