Success never needs an excuse.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.