A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

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

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

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.