Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest