Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.