The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.