We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single h….

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you r….

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

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character..

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

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

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation..

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care..

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader vi….

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down throu….

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it..

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of ….

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the m….

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

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance..

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity..

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone..

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….

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern..

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it….

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words..