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

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.