Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.