I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Invention breeds invention.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.