There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting..

A mind grows by what it feeds on..

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart..

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life..

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose..

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I ….

There are no twin souls in God's universe..

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of….

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine..

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling..

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable..

Humanity is constitutionally lazy..

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer..

The temple of art is built in words..

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man ….

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwis….

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility..

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic..

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come i….

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life..

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obli….