To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.