Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

God's glory is His goodness.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.