Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.