God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

The dog is the god of frolic.