It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.