Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Some people are proud of their humility.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.