The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

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.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!