A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.