Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.