There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

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

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.