It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.