The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.