A church debt is the devil's salary.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

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.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.