The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.