A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.