Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.