All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.