Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.