It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.