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

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law