Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.