Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Impatience never commanded success.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.