A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

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