For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

A man lives by believing something.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.