The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them..

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames..

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish..

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing..

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion..

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our wa….

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences..

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly….

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate….

What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolut….

It is the life in literature that acts upon life..

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save ….

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity..

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed..

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel..

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature..

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrin….

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest..

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers….

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax..

Ideals are the world's masters..