If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.