It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.