A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.