The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow a….

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invad….

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use..

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors..

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless..

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me..

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows..

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high C….

Calmness is the cradle of power..

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endur….

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on..

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

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

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..

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….

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….

Ideals are the world's masters..

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

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

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 ….

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