Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.