In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.