The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.