A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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.

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

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

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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