I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.