There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.