I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.