You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.