Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.