There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.