Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties

Every generation needs regeneration

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Of two evils, choose neither

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything

As sure as God puts his children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.