Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

This is no time to make new enemies.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.