Time and pains will do anything.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.