It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

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.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.