It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.