You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence..

You must make your own opportunities..

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls..

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for th….

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy ….

One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has fo….

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It m….

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as i….

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could..

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence..

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himse….

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land wi….

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go..

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God..

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard..

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world..

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity..

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you..