What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.