Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.