The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.