“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.