It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

I am conscious of eternal life.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.