No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.