If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.