A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.