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

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.